Heroin detox is hard. People who have been on heroin for a long time have it the worst. I can tell you from personal experience; the only way to quit heroin is to get treatment. There’s no way around it. The good news is you have several effective treatments to Continue Reading
What is Black Tar Heroin?
Many people have heard of heroin, however, not many people have heard of black tar heroin. Heroin is an illegal drug that is very addictive. It is processed from the drug morphine. Morphine occurs naturally in the seeds of poppy plants. Heroin is typically a white or brown powder. If the heroin is Continue Reading
What Helps Me To Keep My Sober And Happy Living
As you guys have read, I’m a second generation immigrant, Italian to be exact. I love my Italian heritage and even own a portion of my parents’ pizzeria. I know, it’s a cliché, but somehow I don’t mind it that much. There’s something about being close to my family that Continue Reading
Do you have something more to surprise me?
As I told you in my last post, I got my first taste of illicit drugs when I was 12 years old. In middle school, I smoked pot for the first time. By 13, I had gotten blackout drunk. By high school, when I was 14, I had moved on Continue Reading
Not drugs are like hell, but Detox!
My parents came to the hospital once I had been identified. Ever since they had kicked me out that day in anger, they had been looking for me, but I hadn’t wanted to be found. They stood over me in the hospital bed, looking older than I’d ever seen them Continue Reading
Does it Always Start from Marijuana?
In my last post, I described my parents’ fears about raising children in America, particularly in New York City. Big cities come with big opportunities, but big risk and danger as well. My siblings and I all attended the neighborhood public school growing up. My struggles with addiction began early Continue Reading
My big …very big family. And free pizza!
As I told you before, I am a second-generation immigrant from Italy. This means my parents were born in Italy but came to the United States before I was born. My parents met when they were teenagers and got married young. They have been together for decades. Together they opened Continue Reading
Temptations of big American city
As I said in my last post, my memories from childhood were mostly happy. I was close with all my siblings, and although it would’ve been nice to have some space or privacy once in a while, especially when we were fighting, I wouldn’t trade any of siblings for anything Continue Reading
They beat me up..and I didn’t even realize it
I explained in my last post how I progressed from marijuana to harder drugs and eventually landed on heroin. I quickly became addicted to heroin, and nothing else mattered except for getting enough of the drug into my system to be comfortably numb. I was no longer able to hide Continue Reading